Empire Express - Building the First Transcontinental Railroad - Hardback

by David Howard Bain / Publisher: Viking Press / SALE ITEM / ISBN:0-670-80889-X / Hardback 1999 / This 800 page book tells the story of the of the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railways on May 10, 1869. As well as the political aspects, bad dealings and financial hardships surrounding this major event.